Laysan Albatross

This albatross is named after one of the islands that it breeds on in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

They are currently expanding the number of breeding colonies that they inhabit and have even begun to nest off of the coast of Mexico.

The biggest breeding colony is located on Midway Atoll in Hawaii. There are about 441,000 pairs nesting on this island alone.

Their diet consists mostly of squid.

Many chicks are dying on Midway Atoll due to lead poisoning from lead based paints that were used on former military buildings on the island. The government is currently doing nothing to fix the problem because the clean up with cost $5.6 million and there is no money dedicated to the new Northwest Hawaiian Island Marine National Monument.